All 14 Uses
peevish
in
Wuthering Heights
(Edited)
- 'The Lord help us!' he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly that I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner, and his pious ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent.
p. 1.9peevish = annoyed
- His peevish reproofs wakened in her a naughty delight to provoke him:
p. 29.7peevish = easily annoyed
- Her affection tired very soon, however, and when she grew peevish, Hindley became tyrannical.
p. 31.9
- 'Yes — very foolish: as if I took notice!' replied Catherine, in a peevish tone.
p. 49.4peevish = annoyed
- 'If you talk so, I won't tell you any more,' she returned, peevishly rising to her feet.
p. 55.5peevishly = in an annoyed manner
- The morning was fresh and cool; I threw back the lattice, and presently the room filled with sweet scents from the garden; but Catherine called peevishly to me, 'Ellen, shut the window.'
p. 62.5peevishly = in an easily annoyed manner
- Mr. Linton had not only abjured his peevishness (though his spirits seemed still subdued by Catherine's exuberance of vivacity), but he ventured no objection to her taking Isabella with her to Wuthering Heights in the afternoon;
p. 72.5peevishness = being easily annoyededitor's notes: Abjure is a synonym for renounce
- He was christened Linton, and, from the first, she reported him to be an ailing, peevish creature.
p. 133.3 *peevish = easily irritated or annoyed
- A pale, delicate, effeminate boy, who might have been taken for my master's younger brother, so strong was the resemblance: but there was a sickly peevishness in his aspect that Edgar Linton never had.
p. 145.6peevishness = tendency to be easily annoyed
- I then quitted her again, and she drew the bolt in one of her worst, most peevish humours.
p. 163.7peevish = annoyed or irritated
- 'Joseph!' cried a peevish voice, simultaneously with me, from the inner room.
p. 171.9peevish = annoyed
- I think I should not be peevish with you: you'd not provoke me, and you'd always be ready to help me, wouldn't you?
p. 173.3peevish = easily annoyed
- That was worse: she fretted and sighed, and looked at her watch till eight, and finally went to her room, completely overdone with sleep; judging by her peevish, heavy look, and the constant rubbing she inflicted on her eyes.
p. 178.3
- The pettishness that might be caressed into fondness, had yielded to a listless apathy; there was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of the self-absorbed moroseness of a confirmed invalid, repelling consolation, and ready to regard the good-humoured mirth of others as an insult.
p. 190.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(peevish) annoyed or easily annoyed -- especially by unimportant things
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)